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Kantorow, Marc Dr.
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- B.S. Towson State University, Towson, MD 1985
- Ph.D., George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 1991
- The molecular genetics of eye diseases including age-related human cataract and age-related macular degeneration.
- National Eye Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD; Senior Staff Fellow, 1996-1997
- Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA Medical School, Los Angeles, CA; Asst. Research Ophthalmologist, 1997-1999
- West Virginia University, Dept. of Biology, Morgantown, WV; Assistant Professor; 1999-2003
- John R. Hawse, J. Fielding Hejtmancik, Joseph Horwitz and Marc Kantorow. **Identification and functional gene clustering of global gene expression differences between age-related cataract and clear human lenses and aged clear human lenses. Experimental Eye Research 2004, 79, 3-9.
- Marc Kantorow, John R. Hawse, Tracy L. Cowell, Sonia Benhamed, Gresin O. Pizarro, Venkat Reddy and J. Fielding Hejtmancik.*Methionine sulfoxide reductase A is important for lens cell viability and resistance to oxidative stress. Procedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2004, 101, 9654-9659.
- John R. Hawse, James F. Hejtmancik, Quingling Huang, Nancy L. Sheets, Douglas A. Hosack, Richard A. Lempicki, Joseph Horwitz and Marc Kantorow. *Identification and Functional Clustering of Global Gene Expression Differences Between Human Age-Related Cataract and Clear Lenses. Molecular Vision 2003, 7, 515-537.
- Frank J. Secreto, A. Grover, M. Pacurari, Marc Kantorow, Ashok Bidwai, J.D. Blaha and Phillip E. Keeting. Estrogen potentiates the combined effects of transforming growth factor beta and tumor necrosis factor alpha on adult human osteoblast-like prostaglandin E2 biosynthesis. Calcif. Tissue Int. 2003, 73, 565-574.
- Sumanta Goswami, Nancy Sheets, Jiri Zavadil, Bharesh Chuan, Marc Kantorow and Ales Cvekl. **Spectrum and Range of oxidative stress responses of human lens epithelial cells to H2O2 insult. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 2003, 44, 2084-2093.
- John Hawse, Nancy Sheets, Brian Opperman, Venkat Reddy and Marc Kantorow. Activation of methioneins and alpha-crystallin/sHSPs in human lens epithelial cells by specific metals and the metal content of aging clear human lenses. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 2003, 44, 672-680.
- Nancy Sheets, Bharesh Chauhan, Eric Wawrousek, J. Fielding Hejtmancik, Ales Cvekl and Marc Kantorow. Cataract- and lens-specific up-regulation of ARK Receptor tyrosine kinase in Emory mouse cataract. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 2002, 43,1870-1875.
- Weiyan Zhang, Bharesh K. Chuhan, Kveta Cveklova, Marc Kantorow, and Ales Cvekl. Identification of differentially expressed genes in mouse Pax6 heterozygous lenses. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 2002, 43 1884-1890.
- Stephanie Runkle, Julie Hill, Marc Kantorow, Joseph Horwitz and Mason Posner. Sequence and spatial expression of zebrafish alpha A-crystallin. Molecular Vision 2002, 8, 6-8.
- Weiyan Zhang, John Hawse, QingLing Huang, Nancy Sheets, Kevin Miller, Joseph Horwitz and Marc Kantorow. Decreased expression of ribosomal proteins in human age-related cataract. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 2002, 43, 198-204.
- Weiyan Zhang, Kveta Cveklova, Brian Oppermann, Marc Kantorow, and Ales Cvekl. Characterization of PAX6 and PAX6(5a) transcript and protein levels in adult human lens, cornea, and retina. Molecular Vision. 2001 7,1-5.
- Brian Oppermann, Weiyan Zhang, Kristine Magabo and Marc Kantorow. Identification and spatial analysis of metallothioneins expressed by the adult human lens. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 2001, 42,188-193.
- Kristine Magabo, Joseph Horwitz, Joram Piatigorsky and Marc Kantorow. Expression of betaB2-crystallin mRNA and protein in retina, brain and testis. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 2000 41, 3056-3060.
- Young-Sheng Xu, Marc Kantorow, Janine Davis and Joram Piatigorsky. Evidence for Gelsolin as a corneal crystallin in zebrafish. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2000, 275, 24645-24652.
- Ignacio Rodriquez, Ernesto Moreira, Dean Bok and Marc Kantorow. Osteonectin/SPARC is secreted by RPE and localized to the outer plexiform layer of the monkey retina. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 2000; 41, 2438-2444.
- Marc Kantorow, Quingling Huang, Xian-Jie Yang, E. Helene Sage, Kristine S. Magabo, Kevin M. Miller and Joseph Horwitz. Increased Expression of osteonectin/SPARC mRNA and protein in age-related human cataracts and spatial expression in the normal human lens. Molecular Vision 2000;6, 24-29.
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